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  • 336. Infanterie-Division - 1942

    Dear Michael, thank you very much. I have a similar report with 90 pages, it's certainly the same. Thank you for your help.

  • 336. Infanterie-Division - 1942

    Bonjour,


    I'm French, I'm sorry to didn't write in german, I think it's better that if I used a web translator.


    I make research about the 336.Infanterie-Division during the event 'Englisches Fallschirmjäger Unternehmen bei Cap d'Antifer in der Nacht von 27-28 Feb. 1942'. It was a raid on a Luftwaffe radiolocation post in Normandy (Frankreich). I live there and I used to be to make research about the British side, but I would like to know more about the German part, practically unknown. I have many reports of the division about this night. But I would like to know more about the men who involved during this attack. I believed many of them were kill in action on the Eastern front.


    The 336.Infanterie-Division occupied Le Havre area in Normandy during this era. I'm particularly interested about the Infanterie-Regiment 685 who was the nearest unit of the Heer of the parachute attack.


    I never found a book about the division. I don't know if there is an historian specialized about it. Maybe you know? Can I submit names identities to you? If some of them were kill in action later, we maybe know more about them. I don't know…


    All of this men served in the I.R.685:


    - Oberleutnant Huhn, commanding the 1.Kompanie, I./I.R.685. He was the first to give the alert when he saw the British aircraft dropped the paratroopers.


    - Oberfeldwebel VORMSCHLAG was in the Brunevalschlucht Stützpunkunt.


    - Obergefreiter ARNDT Max (killed in action during the attack, 26.05.1911-28.02.1942).


    - Oberschutze HÖRMANDINGER was badly wounded during the attack.


    - SCHMIDT Georg was a telephonist who was capture by the British and went in England. I don't know if he survived the war.


    - Soldat SCHMITZ Adolf was killed in action during the attack. After an ambush, he lost his patrol and followed a British section that he believed to be his unit (it was the night).


    - Schutze Karl WINKLER


    - Schutze TEWES was prisoner of war after to be wounded on the neck. British paratroops took him in England. I don't know if he survived the war.


    - Unteroffizier TREINIS


    - Major PASCHKE : Commanding Officier of the 1.Bataillon.


    - Feldwebel GATZWILLER


    A little patrol of the I.R.687 was also concerned directly. It was commanding by: Unteroffiziere PETERMANN



    Except for the death, I don't know their firstnames. I was looking for Sterbebilder of them, but it turned out to be unsuccessful. Is there group photos of the division that exists of the 1941-1942 era? Is there a database of Sterbebilds?


    I hope you can help.